Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tippi Hedren

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

Tim Green

Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis.

Rio Ferdinand

Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.

Rio Ferdinand

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

Rio Ferdinand

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

Rio Ferdinand

At times, European football can be very slow but it speeds up in the final third.

Rio Ferdinand

For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

Rio Ferdinand

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play

Rio Ferdinand

If you come out with racist comments, then I believe you shouldn't be allowed to come to a football match. Don't be so narrow minded, you're bigger than that.

Tiki Barber

Marshall was a pioneering player. As a threat in so many different aspects of football, he revolutionized the way in which the running back position was played. He was the player that I wanted to emulate.

Tiki Barber

It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.

Stevie Nicks

We did the opening tailgate party - I'm not a big football person - and it started to rain. I was a little sick and went back to the hotel where we were all staying. We didn't know whether Prince was going to go on or not because the rain got so bad. He had already prerecorded it just in case he couldn't go on. So I'm sitting there wrapped in blankets, with a hot water bottle and hot tea, and he goes on and it's the most magical thing I have ever seen.

Reggie Bush

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

Reggie Bush

I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

Reggie White

I've always believed since I was a kid that God was gonna allow me to play professional football, to use it as a platform to proclaim and live out the name of Jesus. And, you know, that's the most exciting part about my life because God has done things in me to change my character to benefit the kingdom.

Reggie White

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

Tom Hooper

I don't even like football.

Tom Hiddleston

As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes, or football players... I had all of the Marvel superheroes and super-villains you could get, and I used to play them with my friends. They were all listed according to their height and weight and agility and their super-powers.

Tom Hiddleston

Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But actually all you need to do is play football with kids for six months and then after they've trusted you, you tell them about the truth of Aids, and that their grandmother didn't die from witchcraft, she died from Aids. And that's the biggest difference you can make.

Tommy Docherty

There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.

Tommy Docherty

Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap.

Tommy Bowden

I've seen him be successful throwing the football his sophomore year, I've seen that. I've seen him react through adversity, I have seen that. I'd never seen him react to a new system because we didn't have one. I'd say that'd be the most impressive thing.

Tom Udall

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

Thomas Jones

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

Vidal Sassoon

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Viggo Mortensen

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

Victoria Beckham

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

Victor Cruz

I want to win football games.

Victor Cruz

There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

Victor Cruz

Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

Victor Cruz

I just want to continue to play football and be myself.

Victor Cruz

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

Victor Cruz

I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.